The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus Du Sautoy.
We can say that this book is quite similar to Fermat Last Theorem by Singh the main differences are: - It is about Riemann hypothesis and not Fermat Theorem - It is not solved (yet):-)
I read it at least a couple time (and i just read once the Singh one), i really loved it, the format of the book is almost a collection of the biographies of the mathematicians that studied it but the thing that hook me is the feeling of the almost "need" of those scientist to work with it, not to mention the vastness of the implication it has (from pure math to physics to cryptology). It is really readable even without great math knowledge, as there is almost no equation there.
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The Music of the Primes: Searching to Solve the Greatest Mystery in Mathematics by Marcus Du Sautoy.
We can say that this book is quite similar to Fermat Last Theorem by Singh the main differences are:
- It is about Riemann hypothesis and not Fermat Theorem
- It is not solved (yet):-)
I read it at least a couple time (and i just read once the Singh one), i really loved it, the format of the book is almost a collection of the biographies of the mathematicians that studied it but the thing that hook me is the feeling of the almost "need" of those scientist to work with it, not to mention the vastness of the implication it has (from pure math to physics to cryptology).
It is really readable even without great math knowledge, as there is almost no equation there.